FAMAG 1000.18


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A rare late nineteenth-century French artist?s frame; reverse profile with gently canted frieze surmounted by torus moulding with applied plaster garland of imbricated (overlapping) bay leaves-&-berries, centred, and bound at centres and corners; round and hollow stepped mouldings to sight edge; finished in matt and burnished water-gilding; supplied by Paul Mitchell Limited. (r)

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Waterhouse, John William RA (1849-1917): The Bouquet, oil on canvas, 59 x 42 cms. Presented by De Pass, Alfred A.


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This frame is the same pattern as that given, on a slightly larger scale, to The Lady of Shalott. It has the same decoratively flattening effect on the painting, which is in any case set in a confined and shallow space, like Rossetti?s decorative small oil paintings of women of the 1860s.